Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-22
FRIDAY. JULY q. 1887

Orphans Court Sale-Estate of ], c. Blair.
Royal Baking Powder.
New locals-Renfrew Academy.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE LITTLE GREEN APPLE.
hear the loud notes of an echoing vail, of
small, small boy in bee,
1t raises the shingles from off the roof as he
wishes that he were dead;
And the apples are there, and their presence
is known
As the primeyal cause of that far-reaching
groan. =,
And the small boy grows limp, and the small
And the small boy gets weaker and can't
And he VOWS a big VOW he'll eat apples no
more,
For his system is racked and his diaphram's
sore;
But the very next day. forgetting all pain,
He tackles the little green apple again.
During this hot weather it is even refresh
ing to run across a cool piece of impudence-
The picnic of the Presbyterian Sunday
School was very enjoyable affair.
Who will build band stand in Diamond
Park.
Sixty deaths from sunstroke were reported
in Chicago last Sunday.
The P. & w. r. e. will double track be-
tw cen Allegheny City and Gallery.
Mr.. Mart Croll of Slipperyrock twp,
was prostrated by the heat last Sunday.
Another "thirty- pound pike" was pulled
out Of Slipperyrock the other day.
w. D. Brandon, ESQ., cab led the arrival
of his vessel at Antwerp last Monday.
Jos. Britain, Jr., intends moving one of
his saw-mills to West Virginia.
-"All the world and his wife" go to pic
mic, come back disguised and-go to the next
one.
Mr.. VIM. Schneider, Town Assessor, re.
ports 242 votes in First Ward, 437 in Second
and 454 in Third, or 1888 in all.
The drug store of Grubbs & Reiber-both
Butler boys-at 1120 Penn Ave, Plttsburg,
was injured by Gre last Saturday night
Hugh McEIroy of Karns City. aged ls
wears was drowned in the Allegheny river.
near Brady's Bend last Saturday night.
The West Penn z. z. win soon have
four tracks from the city to Sharpsburg, and
two to Natrona.
There are lots of ponds in Butler county
in which turtles might be raised for the city
market.
There was an old gentleman in Butler
the other day. who when he was young beai
L rnt Yf.da
back.
The festival given by the ladies Of the
Presbyterian Church of Harrisville, to raise
money for a new carpet, netted S3S.
Watt Tate and P. W. Lowry and Chas.
McCandless, Esqrs., are camping at Muskoka
lake, Canada, with the Solid Comfort Club Of
Mercer.
The Plate Glass Co. will take their water
from the creek between the West Penn and
Kittanning bridges, and pump it up TO tanks
on top of the adjoining hill.
During the heavy rain storm in Saxon
burg last Saturday a hay stack belonging 10
Chas. Sasse was struck by lightning and de-
stroyed by fire.
"a deal of Dutch row" is reported from
Little Germany, Winfield twp. Particulars
not known here but clubs and knives said to
have been used freely.
The proposed change in the time tables
of the s. A. and p. d. w. railroads with
through parlor cars between Allegheny and
Chautauqua has fallen through, for the pres
ent.
Two car loads Of beer intended for the
use Of Butler people on the Fourth, were, by
accident or design, sidetracked at Gallery Tor
two days preceding.
On orr I'd page to-day will be found 9
striking and instructive illustration OF the
comparative worth of the various kinds OF
baking powders now in the market.
The Rock Fishing Club is camping in
The woods along the 8. & A. Z. E., between
the Park and Keisters, and they have to go
mp the creek little ways to fish.
An exchange very rightly says that the
building and loan association, as an anti
poverty society, is far ahead Of that humbug
concern which exists only in the imagination
Of the Georgeites.
When old man Ewing Of Springdale was
informed of his death the other day, he said
he didn't believe 1t. He is neither dead, dy'
ing or thinking Of dying-persistent reports
TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
The mercury reached 1O1 at Pittsburg
last Sunday, and there were half q hundred
cases Of sunsfroke in the two cities, q dozen of
which were fatal Several street car horses
were killed, and the liverymen refused to
hire,
1t Is learned from those who keep the
Yuu Of such matters that the fishing tackle
ky cf he mi M O
clubs this year, IN quite the same az formerly,
except that the jugs may be triAe shorter
in the neck and fuller in the body.
BY the new law persons wishing 10 act
o. detectives must take out license, and
give bond in 5000. The license must be
had from the Court, the application must be
fled with the Clerk Of Courts, two weeks be-
fore regular term, and the license IL grant
ed will cost $25, and be good for three years.
A Republican paper of venango county
charges that the iesolutions Of their Demo
cratic county convention were multilatcd of.
ter adoption. Democratic politicians are q
queer yet, the resolutions OF the late Demo.
cratic con vcntion here were changed after
adoption.
During the hot season the women keep
comparatively cool and comfortable 10 their
MOtner t1uDDdr0s, anu tncFt bnOuiu VIC
daddy Hubbard" invented for the men. A
broad -brimmed straw hat, a pair Of low
shoes and q "fg-leaf" would make "Jim
Dandy" costume for 100-degree weather.
The borough law passed last winter re-
quires Justices of the Peace 70 reside and IA
have their Offices in the ward for which they
are elected. II the borough is divided int
three wards, Councilmen and School Direc
tors will be elected by their wards, the term,
Of none of the present officers to be interferec
with.
This il the hottest July 10 eleven years.
but we should all grin and bear it. Recol-
lect that, according TO Sir VIM. Thompson
calculations, the suns heat will be 80 great
" reduced, in the course Of ten million years
that 1t will be insufficient to support life OF
this planet.
The new stock of the Pennsylvania rail
road company has all been taken, yieldin:
100000. Among the purposes TO which
the money thus realized will be devoted viii
be the building Of an elevated railroad
through jersey City, and the extension Of thu
four.tvack system from Jersey City to Har
Tisburg.
-Telegrams received here last Monday
announced the death ON Sunday OF the wifi
Of w. A. Christie, ex- x-County Commissioner
at Milan, Kansas. Apoplexy il supposed 10
have been the cause Of her death. She wa
G3 years Of age, and her maiden name wa
Sarah McJunkin she was sister Of Mr.. Jas
T. McJunkin, decd, Of Butler. and twin
sister of Mr.. Jno. X. McJunkin Of Clay twp